NURSING FOUNDATIONS MIDTERM JERSEY COLLEGE
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS!!
advocate
Answers the protection of human or legal rights and the securing of care for all
patients based on the belief that patients have the right to make informed decisions
about their health and lives
caregiver
Answers The provision of care to patients that combines both the art and the
science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and
spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse integrates the roles of communicator,
teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and collaborator to promote
wellness through activities that prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping
with disability or death. The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
4 Nursing Aims
Answers 1. promotes health
2. prevent illness/disease
3. restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death(die with dignity)
Florence Nightingale
Answers Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing.
began professional education of nursing.
nursing profession criteria
Answers well defined body of specific and unique knowledge
,strong service oriented
recognized authority by a professional group
Code of Ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
Standards of Nursing Practice
Answers allow nurses to carry out professional roles, serving as protection for the
nurse, the patient, and the institution where health care is provided
Nurse Practice Act
Answers laws established in each state in the US to regulate the practice of nursing
Nursing Process
Answers Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Used by the nurse to identify the patients health care needs and strengths, to
establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of the plan
Sources of Knowledge
Answers Traditional-passed down from generation to generation
,Authoritative-comes from an expert
Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
General Systems Theory
Answers how to break whole things into parts and then to learn how the parts
work together in systems
Adaptation Theory
Answers defines adaptation as the adjustment of living matter to other living
things and to environmental conditions
developmental theory
Answers process of growth and development of humans as orderly and
predictable, beginning with conception and ending with death
nursing theory
Answers differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities by serving the
purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of
nursing care practices
deductive reasoning
Answers general to specific
inductive reasoning
Answers specific to general
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories
, Answers Person (patient)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Sister Callista Roy
Answers Nursing interventions are needed when individuals demonstrate
ineffective adaptive responses; adaptive modes. adaptation model, relationships
between persons, universe, god, Adaptation model: assistance with the adaptation
to stressors to facilitate the integration process of the client. Theory helps the
"biospsychosocial" client modify external stimuli, adaptation will occur
evidence-based practice
Answers in nursing is a problem solving approach to making clinical decisions
using the best evidence available
PICOT format
Answers Patient population
Intervention or issue of interest
Comparison intervention
Outcome
Time frame
holistic health care
Answers care that addresses the many dimensions that comprise the whole person-
the nurse must understand and respect each persons own definition of health and
responses to illness
acute illness
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS!!
advocate
Answers the protection of human or legal rights and the securing of care for all
patients based on the belief that patients have the right to make informed decisions
about their health and lives
caregiver
Answers The provision of care to patients that combines both the art and the
science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and
spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse integrates the roles of communicator,
teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and collaborator to promote
wellness through activities that prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping
with disability or death. The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
4 Nursing Aims
Answers 1. promotes health
2. prevent illness/disease
3. restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death(die with dignity)
Florence Nightingale
Answers Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing.
began professional education of nursing.
nursing profession criteria
Answers well defined body of specific and unique knowledge
,strong service oriented
recognized authority by a professional group
Code of Ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
Standards of Nursing Practice
Answers allow nurses to carry out professional roles, serving as protection for the
nurse, the patient, and the institution where health care is provided
Nurse Practice Act
Answers laws established in each state in the US to regulate the practice of nursing
Nursing Process
Answers Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Used by the nurse to identify the patients health care needs and strengths, to
establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of the plan
Sources of Knowledge
Answers Traditional-passed down from generation to generation
,Authoritative-comes from an expert
Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
General Systems Theory
Answers how to break whole things into parts and then to learn how the parts
work together in systems
Adaptation Theory
Answers defines adaptation as the adjustment of living matter to other living
things and to environmental conditions
developmental theory
Answers process of growth and development of humans as orderly and
predictable, beginning with conception and ending with death
nursing theory
Answers differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities by serving the
purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of
nursing care practices
deductive reasoning
Answers general to specific
inductive reasoning
Answers specific to general
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories
, Answers Person (patient)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Sister Callista Roy
Answers Nursing interventions are needed when individuals demonstrate
ineffective adaptive responses; adaptive modes. adaptation model, relationships
between persons, universe, god, Adaptation model: assistance with the adaptation
to stressors to facilitate the integration process of the client. Theory helps the
"biospsychosocial" client modify external stimuli, adaptation will occur
evidence-based practice
Answers in nursing is a problem solving approach to making clinical decisions
using the best evidence available
PICOT format
Answers Patient population
Intervention or issue of interest
Comparison intervention
Outcome
Time frame
holistic health care
Answers care that addresses the many dimensions that comprise the whole person-
the nurse must understand and respect each persons own definition of health and
responses to illness
acute illness
